Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal?

Years ago I heared the recommended way for embassies was to have 
an emergency set ready, consisting of a solid chisel and a heavy 
hammer.

Make shure to shatter the disks.

When you have time put your chisel to the the hard disk where the 
platters are, then hit hard.

If in a hurry put the chisel to the laptop where the disks are an 
hit hard ;-)

Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> writes:

> sysutils/ddrescue helped me to read broken drives several times, 
> it
> retries then skips on errors.
>
> sysutils/e2fsprogs has program badblocks that can help disk 
> rebuild in
> read only mode, or make things worse depending how its broken, 
> and you
> can use it many loops of destructive write test to overwrite 
> data.
>
> the safest way to dispose sensitive data is by physical 
> destruction :-)


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Markus Graf